Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.